Episode 2 starts with Detective Tovar looking at the bones, as Gacy is admitted into prison. Elizabeth and Harold get a phone call from Kozenczak, who tells them that John Wayne Gacy has been arrested, and they’re certain he knows where Rob is.
We then find ourselves in 1975 in Des Plaines, where we meet Johnny Szyc, and his father Richard. Back at 78, Sam and John are in the interrogation room, discussing what to do, when Joe and Mike, and Bill the prosecutor, enter the room. Bill tells John about the charges, and Joe suggests John give the location of Rob’s body.
Sam tells John not to answer, but he tells the detectives he wants to help any way he can. John, Bill and Joe return to John’s home as the detectives are investigating the bodies, much to John’s disgruntlement. John shows the detectives the garage, to tell them about the body under the floor, and tells them there are more bodies. Johnny and Lynn talk about Johnny possibly being gay as she applies makeup to him, to get ready to head to the club.
Johnny meets a man named Cliff, and they hit it off. Mike drives John to the location to recover the other bodies, where John tells the detectives that he had an accomplice named Jack Hanley (basically his dark side), who would kill the people, and that he would just bury them.
They arrive at a bridge, and John leads them to the side where he would dump the bodies into the river, before Joe angrily asks him about Rob. Joe heads to Elizabeths home, where he lets her know that John confessed to his murder. In the interrogation room, John asks Joe to give him a pencil and paper, since he promised detective Tovar he would draw him a map. We then see real footage and images of the map, the bridge where he would dump the bodies, the exhumation of the bodies, and an image of Johnny Szyc.
This episode was a bit better with the editing than the last one, and didn’t have anything that really jutted out like the last one. The inclusion of the actual images in the last part of the episode was cool. Maybe they’ll do that at the end of every episode. Usually in shows like this, they include stuff like that at the end, where they talk about charges, execution, and show the actual images. If it’s only in a few episodes, it would have made more sense to put it all in the final episode, but we’ll see.
Rating 7/10